Cassidy, Woon, Fong and a fourth friend started Ultimate Arena, a Web site hosting online tournaments.

FORBES: ONLINE GAMING

City governments should have greater say over matters affecting their day-to-day functioning, says state councilor Toh Kin Woon.

CNN: Georgetown

Then a longtime friend, Max Woon, urged him to look at online games.

FORBES: ONLINE GAMING

Woon, from New Malden, Surrey, says he is most comfortable in the studio.

BBC: Sound of 2011: Jamie Woon

In turn, a friend of Woon's--Jonathan Abrams, cofounder of Friendster, the trendy social networking site--put Cassidy in touch with Thresh, a.k.a.

FORBES: ONLINE GAMING

Woon heads back out on the road in February and his debut album is scheduled for release in the spring through Polydor Records.

BBC: Sound of 2011: Jamie Woon

Woon says he is hoping to attract some young artists to his fledgling label and has some "people in mind", including some "friends who have been making music for a while".

BBC: Sound of 2011: Jamie Woon

When news of the second case became public, the hospital's chief executive, Dr. Vivian Wong Taam Chi-woon, insisted that the surgeon was right to remove the fallopian tube because it was seriously inflamed.

CNN: Tiny Margin for Error

The same might go for director Kim Jee-woon, a talented Korean known for macabre ghost stories like "A Tale of Two Sisters, " whacky adventures ("The Good, the Bad, the Weird"), and grisly cop thrillers ("I Saw the Devil").

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Since topping the Sound of 2011 list, Jessie J's album Who You Are has gone on to be the biggest-selling debut album of the year in the UK. She was joined in the top five by James Blake, The Vaccines, Jamie Woon and Clare Maguire.

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